good morning. >> very rare and i wish i was outside on the sky deck, standing outside but roadways are looking okay. we have one accident, that i will talk to you about in a moment coming up but lauren, let's stick with the good news right now. tell us more about the the weather. >> great news in the weather department. i'm wearing a jacket but it is heavy for these mild temperatures this morning. the don't need that winter coat, don't need a that hat today or tomorrow as well, very quiet conditions, just to start you off on a wednesday. storm scan three is showing us, nothing to worry about, not even really a cloud in sight. we like that early on a wednesday morning. lets get through the day. temperatures right now 48 degrees in philadelphia, nice, calm wind. we are at 50 down the shore and extremely mild start in the poconos, at 41 degrees, and yeah, we are going for winter, to spring, maybe even early summer you can call it. our average high is 50 degrees. so it is last weekend it was cool, temperatures in the 40's on saturday, 42 degrees, monday, we got the to 60's.

yesterday, of course, a gorgeous day in store at 75 degrees and today we are soaring through the 70's and getting so close, to 80 degrees, a high temperature today of 79. but we do have an 80-degree reading, in your seven day forecast and i will let you know when to break out those shorts, meisha, in just a couple minutes. >> all right, sound good, thanks very much, lauren for that great news, good morning everyone if you are just waking up with us we are so glad you are here. grabbing your first cup of coffee and we will bring this to you. we have police activity pulled off to the right shoulder, schuylkill eastbound approaching city avenue, not causing too many slow downs yet but i am watching this as we crack in the the 5:00 o'clock hour, because this will slow us down as we will get more gaper delay and volume issues out there just make note that is where you it is, but it is pulled off to the shoulder. boulevard moving in the the southbound direction approaching schuylkill, looking good, nice and quiet, beautiful shot. showing you that it is still dark outside, but in terms of

the volume levels, we are looking good here at the boulevard. ben franklin bridge same story for this those coming from new jersey in the westbound direction, looking nice and quiet. one of my favorite shots right there, absolutely stunning, some construction outside past downingtown, route 30 westbound before route 82 that left lane is block, make note for those in and around that area. just make note it is out there. also, some more construction just a a reminder 95 north bound from ramp from delaware avenue is closed and it will be closed until march 21st. make note. the westbound ramp to richmond street is closed until early may, so for those who take that bridge just make note of that, erika, back over to you. new you this morning a violent crash, with the driver dead in kensington. new video right here shows that car that is what is left of the car just a pile of metal at second and cecil b more. that vehicle was going extremely fast when it slammed in the park vehicle and a house were bursting into flames.

also new this morning going above and beyond the call of duty, when police officers rush in the burning building to save lives in the main line. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch joining us now at that scene in lower merion with more on these officers heroic efforts, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, heroic indeed, three victims are now recovering thanks to lower merion police and fire, whose brave actions, saved lives overnight. lets take you now to video here from the scene, lower merion fire and police agencies a arrived to this random road home, to find, heavy flames on the second floor. reports of the fire, came in at the about ten until midnight and upon a arrival, fire crews noted heavy fire upstairs and in at least one of the homes bedrooms. the fire crews were able to bring this fire under control in 20 minutes but priority one was rescues. lower merion's fire chief says that police and fire fighters faced flames and their fears to free those vick times. >> we arrived on location.

we have had fire showing on the second floor, police officers pulled two people out from the door on arrival. fire department went in and found another victim on the second floor. >> reporter: we have three victims total here, one taken to penn presbyterian with reports of the smoke inhalation, two others taken to lankenau. we also have heard there are as many as eight occupants in this home at the time or near the time of this fire but luckily, there are only injuries that are those three victims, in injuries to those men and women who went into rescue those three victims, erika, back over to you. >> incredible effort, justin, thanks very much. right now a spectacular fire and explosion in delaware county, check out the this scene here. more than 100 fire fighters battled for hours to bring that fire under control. the fire broke out late last night at an auto body shop on ellis avenue in colwyn boro. fire fighters believe it started outside and then work its way inside the building causing several explosions.

fortunately no one was injured. the cause of the fire is under investigation. right now it is 5:05. bernie sanders debates hillary clinton tonight after a surprise victory in michigan. it was close but he managed to defeat clinton in a state where the polls had expected the former secretary of state the to win by double digits. on the republican side, michigan is one of the three states where voters pick donald trump, the other two are mississippi and hawaii. ted cruz won in idaho. craig boswell looks at numbers and what they mean in the race for the white house. >> reporter: bernie sanders regained momentum last night picking up a big win in michigan's primary contest over rival hillary clinton. >> i just want to take this opportunity to thank the people of michigan who kind of repudiated polls that had us 20, 25 points down a few days ago. >> reporter: clinton who scored a few days victory in mississippi. >> running for president, shouldn't be about delivering

insults, it should be about delivering results for the american people. >> reporter: for sanders, the race is ab uphill climb, former secretary of state has already earned more than half of the delegates needed to clinch the party nomination. >> in terms of the super delegates he is way behind hillary clinton and i just don't see that changing barring some catastrophic problem with her campaign. >> reporter: despite efforts by some in the republican establishment to derail donald trump's campaign trump continues to extend his lead picking up even more victories last night. >> is there only one person who did well tonight, donald trump, i will tell you. >> reporter: billion air front runner defeated his rivals in michigan, mississippi and hawaii while ted cruz carried idaho. >> we have tremendous supports on the grass roots and we are fighting to earn delegates. >> reporter: marco rubio suffered a brutal night the emerging with no new delegates. craig boswell for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". be sure to stay with

"eyewitness news" for latest developments from the campaign trail, we're always on line at cbs philly.com. back here in our area police are investigating several homicide, spanning several hours in philadelphia. white chalk marks bullet casings at the the scene as a man was shot several times in strawberry mansion. that happened around 8:30 on the the 2400 block of north hollywood street. police say that the three two-year old victim was sitting with a group on the steps, when two men walk up and opened fire. so far there have been no arrests. funeral arrangements are still being finalized for a new jersey state trooper killed in the crash this week. investigators say trooper sean cullen was struck by a vehicle will while managing the scene of the accident on i295 in deptford, monday night. he later died at cooper medical center surrounded by family. cullen was a trooper for almost two years, he followed in the footsteps of his older brother who is a detective. >> the outpouring of the

public support, the outpouring of law enforcement support, it is almost beyond belief. >> investigators say so far no charges have have been filed against would the man was driving that vehicle that hit trooper cullen. a close call for a narcotic officer in doylestown bucks county. he was shocked, yesterday while trying to get some evidence off that roof of the septa train. police tell us that the officer was preparing to arrest a drug suspect when that suspect threw a bag of drugs on to the roof of the train. when the officer went to grab the drugs he touched a live wire and then was shocked. we're told his injuries are not life threatening. a public viewing for nancy reagan begins today at ronald reagan presidential library in california. mourners can pay their respects until tomorrow afternoon. the funeral is set for friday. then the former first lady will be buried next to her husband on the library grounds. mrs. reagan who died sunday at the age of 94, planned the services down to the smallest

details. 5:08. a robber picked the wrong target the surprising way he was stopped after, pointing a a gun at a taxi driver's head. remarkable rescue, heroic police officer risks his life to pull two children from that burning car. the obstacle that is made their escape even more risky. and, how would you like to sink your teeth into this grilled cheese for lunch, yum. locally made sandwich was just named within of the best grilled cheeses in the country. we will tell you special ingredients that makes this sandwich so special. we would all be good if this perfect weather stuck around for a while, lauren will let you know when the warm spell will last and when rain will return to the forecast when we come right back.

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mart teenes herrera pointed a gun at a head in the traffic light. did he not realize a sheriff's deputy was sitting right behind them. when driver didn't go through the green light the deputy turned on his lights. martinez herrera tried to runaway but he was quickly caught. a california highway patrolman rescued children trapped in the burning car and then all this is caught on video too. i want to show you officer pulling those children age one and two from the burning car. the officer says he was driving along the highway when he noticed the car in front of him began to smoke. he instruct him to pull off at the next exit. >> my first thought was just to get everybody out of the car as quick as we can in case the car would just fully engulf into flames. i reached through and unlock them, try to get the doors open to get them unbuckled out of the car seats and into their car. >> well done. >> the driver side door was jammed, the driver had to climb out passenger side door. newspaper photographer who also happened to be behind the

car, captured the chaotic scene as it unfolded. two women in the the car and their children were taken to the hospital, as a precaution. some strong storms in texas, strand drivers on flooded streets. rescuers say several people from the rising water after flash flooding caught them off guard. six students and a bus driver were also rescued when their school bus, stalled in high water. some areas outside dallas got more than 6 inches of rain yesterday, and they are expecting more storms, today, but that is back here at home only within way to describe our forecast, i think, lauren, picture perfect. i love these temperatures we're talking about. >> mother nature is like, okay, you're out of here, you over stayed you are welcome, now time for a warmth and spring count down is on. yesterday we were definitely feeling like spring. as we head into the up copping weekend we will spring, forward just four days away from the start of the daylight savings time. and then, spring, officially,

begins, in 11 days, 25 days until our average high temperature climbs up to 60 degrees. and then just 32 days away from the phillies home opener. ahh, yes, baseball, that definitely brings in spring-like feelings. temperatures right now, we're very mild to start as far as averages are concerned. 48 degrees in philadelphia 50 in a ac. we are chillier in the lehigh valley. 37 degrees. mild start in mount pocono at 41 right now. wind are generally calm to light but notice these streamlines, these wind pulling out of the south, driving that warmth, in and today temperatures are going to climb even warmer then that 75 degrees we had yesterday. seventy-nine, that will be record smashing high temperature, sunshine around for today, our average high temperature is 50 degrees. no where near that. even overnight tonight, our low will be above our average high temperature, mostly clear, southeasterly win at five to 10 miles per hour. we have a chance of rain in the forecast but not the for

today. high pressure remains in control all throughout the day keeping sunshine around, in problems as we are heading home on your commute this evening. as we look ahead toward tomorrow still mainly dry conditions a few more clouds but then as an area have low pressure moves in drags a cold front through heading in to late tomorrow night, it could bring us a few showers, fairly light in intensity and then quickly clearing out, we could see clearing skies through the day on friday with sunshine returning as high pressure settles in. very quickly, once again, and will give us sunny start to the weekend but cloud do increase as we head throughout our the saturday but temperatures, still very mild on the back side of the cold front. we will drop down significantly from 80 but we are still at 68 degrees, on friday, and temperatures as we head into the upcoming weekend, meisha, still in the middle 60's. our coolest high temperature in the next seven daises 60 degrees on monday, not too bad. >> wow, lauren, it is crazy, you have to take a double take at that number 80 degrees tomorrow, yes. good morning, everyone. that makes me so happy on this

hump day. we have got some delays here, schuylkill eastbound approaching schuylkill eastbound. pulled off to the shoulder. not causing too many slow downs yet the but it certainly can as we progress through 5:00 o'clock hour. make note it the is there and has been there for quite sometime. hopefully this gets cleared out and won't cause too many slow downs. right now pulled off to the shoulder, not causing too many slow downs right now. blue route southbound near mid county moving in the the southbound direction we are looking good. you can see volume, almost certainly starting to heat up just a little bit, would i say both north and southbound the blue route is what we're seeing right new but that is fairly typical at this time but overall things are looking good on the blue route. ninety-five south at girard, same thing here we are seeing, levels slowly build up as we head in the southbound direction, of course, north bound not looking bad especially around girard but southbound where i'm keeping my eye. all of the levels building pushing their way southbound. give yourself a couple extra minutes, you will need them as we again, push through 5:00 o'clock hour. closure vine street expressway, east and westbound

is closed overnight between schuylkill and broad street. tonight, tomorrow night. this will take place at 11:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. make note of that. that will effect a lot of us, myself included. accident in perkasie somerton road past dublin pike, one lane blocked here. a lot of activity this morning. and also, just a reminder, betsy ross bridge westbound ramp to richmond street is closed and this will be closed until early may. back over to you, erika. >> meisha, thank you. a suspect is in custody in the weekend shooting of the idaho pastor. the accused shooter traveled across the country to the the white the house, where he was arrested. we now get the story of exactly how he was caught. >> reporter: man suspect of shooting an idaho pastor over the weekend arrested in washington, on tuesday just outside the white house. >> initial reports indicate he had thrown several items over the fence at the white house, initial information i'm receiving is those included some flash drives and some other unknown items. >> reporter: police say kyle andrew odom gunned down tim

remington outside a church in idaho on sunday. remington is expect to survive. after the shooting odom flew to washington. >> we took measures to try to locate him. once we were unable to we put a warrant and system in the national database how someone with a felony warrant could board an airplane i'm not the person to answer that question. >> reporter: police say odom planned an attack but they do not have a motive. what they have is a list of the pastor and names of the several lawmakers. >> people were listed in that manifesto. >> fifteen or so u.s. senators along with probably twice that amount from the u.s. house, and, probably half of that amount from israeli government. >> reporter: pastor remington spoken at an end for ted cruz just a day before the shooting. police have not found any indication that the shooting was politically motivated. reese mini on, cb136789 "eyewitness news". what camille cosby admits she has never done despite dozens of accusation as begins

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health officials are trying to figure out exactly what has caused a contagious stomach bug spreading around the campus on lafayette college in easton. almost 50 students got sick starting on friday night. there is no specific treatment but number of cases is starting to go down. path department have of health is working to determine the cause of this out break. meanwhile montgomery county is now confirmed its first case of the zika virus. the county health department tells us that five five-year old would map has been positive after traveling outside the country. that brings the total to six confirmed cases in pennsylvania. there are two cases in new

jersey and one in delaware. all of them are travel-related. well, we all know texts while driving is a bad idea but you know what else is a bad idea, texting while walking. an alarming report shows more than 2300 pedestrians were killed, in the first six moth of last year. that is a 10 percent increase from the year before, with exerts called explosive. several recent studies confirm people who use their fence while walking or driving have slower reactions times and pay less attention to surroundings. there is a new way to get fit, instead of the just going to your gym and your neighborhood a new program lets you take all of the classes you want at more than 7,000 gyms across the country. as cbs news correspondent wendy gilette explains it is designed to make working out, even easier. >> three, two, one. >> reporter: ashley diamond took a class in new york city as part of her class pass membership. most of the women here are members of the class pass

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an her on "eyewitness news", it is thrill of the lifetime for a bruce springsteen fan, we will tell you how he ended up on stage, perform with the boss. >> you know how excited you are when you find a dollar bill on the sidewalk. but what if you found more than 15,000, right here on a roadway in upper darby? you'll hear from the man did, and learn an important lesson from what he did with the money, coming up. it is fast becoming known as one of the place that he is makes some of the greatest grilled cheeses in the entire country, i'm jan carabao coming to you live from rittenhouse this morning. coming up we will show you this local success story and what makes these sandwiches so delicious. record breaking temperatures in store for today but it won't be only day we will feel this june-like warmth, how long this record stretch last in your full forecast, coming up.

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